Did the polio vaccine caused the mesothelioma epidemic?

Here is a mind-boggling article, published nineteen years ago in the Atlantic: The Virus and the Vaccine

A monkey virus known as SV40 contaminated the polio vaccine given to 98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Monkey kidneys had been used to culture the massive quantities of the polio virus for the millions of vaccines needed, but research later found SV40 inside the tumors of those who died of mesothelioma. Fast-forward to thousands of deaths each year and mesothelioma lawsuit commercials. Those commercials point to asbestos as the cause, and the article does say that asbestos is a factor, but that SV40 interacts with asbestos, resulting in a rapid-onset, terminal cancer. The entire article needs to be plucked from the memory hole and read.

Author: S. Smith